[HN Gopher] Template for Impactful Ideas
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Template for Impactful Ideas
Author : KentBeck
Score : 59 points
Date : 2023-08-07 14:06 UTC (1 days ago)
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| more_corn wrote:
| Pro tip when offering pro tips (stolen from Andrew Carnegie)
| begin by telling me why I should listen to your pro tip.
|
| Pretend I've never hear of you and don't know if you've ever
| accomplished anything meaningful. Assume that I'll take one look,
| not recognize your name and go away unless you give me a reason
| to stay.
| KentBeck wrote:
| Why should I listen to you?
|
| Seriously, thank you for that feedback. While the current
| generation of developers has heard of my work, they don't
| necessarily associate it with me. Establishing credibility
| would amplify what I say.
| onco wrote:
| Different strokes for different folks. Kent Beck is a very
| well-known programmer and likely needs no introduction. If he
| started every article on his personal blog regaling readers
| with his accomplishments, it might not be received as well as
| you suggest.
| bbor wrote:
| Plus he does do this eventually - shouting out JUnit and
| Extreme Programming. I didn't know who he was, tbf
| janalsncm wrote:
| A lot of advice from successful people is tainted by
| survivorship bias. So the fact that the advice comes from a
| successful person isn't sufficient to determine that it's good
| advice.
|
| Maybe we should demand that all advice undergo a large sample
| size double-blind study before it reaches our eyeballs. Only
| those pieces of advice with p values under 5% are fit for
| consumption.
| [deleted]
| andsoitis wrote:
| > Before I go into detail, let me first say that one difference
| between success and failure turning an idea into impact is work.
| Lots and lots of work.
|
| ... because ideas don't execute themselves
| layer8 wrote:
| Hence arguably "impactful ideas" is a misnomer here, because
| it's rarely the ideas themselves that are impactful (and you
| are rarely the first to have them), but what you make based on
| them.
| bbor wrote:
| Idk I'd disagree - see the part about "when someone repeats
| my idea to someone else with referencing me, I've won". There
| is indeed a lot of work involved, but the author is trying to
| create memetic value here, not some software or particular
| product. Imo.
| podgorniy wrote:
| I'm sad that people don't do much of public reflection on how
| they managed to get where they are (how they moved things where
| these things are). Contrary they make up appealing stories (which
| sometimes becomes a part of idea becoming impactful) hiding real
| mechanics. I appreciate your kind of openess. Thanks for sharing.
| What you described is aligned with my observations and I hope it
| will save some time of rediscovering things which work. For
| example I could not accept repeating, pitching same idea again
| and again (though some people say that repetition is what works).
| After reading about your experience it will be easier for me to
| get there.
| shove wrote:
| I can tell this guy walks the walk because midway through the
| essay I went, "Haha nice; he's doing it right now--that's so
| meta" and then sure enough the conclusion bore this out.
| tikkun wrote:
| Very helpful - thank you!
|
| Others in the comments: I also like this post from the OP -
| https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/fast-slow-in-3x-explore-ex...
| bzmrgonz wrote:
| Step 1: put your content behind a paywall!!
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